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Dickie B from HB
10-07-2019, 11:56 PM
Just wondering if anyone remembers Handy Landing and their Quadi Moccasins ?
joey2665
10-08-2019, 05:56 AM
The images I can get my hands on this early. I have some really old ones too.

The best store on the water.

https://i.imgur.com/gv8lbZh.jpg

Where in the Weirs was this store?


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MeredithMan
10-08-2019, 06:47 AM
...a great memory to start my day. Loved going there as a kid with my father when he would go to get gas in the car and get a coffee...
ApS
10-08-2019, 07:02 AM
The year of the color postcard (above) is about 1962.

The tall skinny box in the right-foreground is a telephone booth. ;)
coltgov101
10-08-2019, 09:46 AM
I remember that place well. Those type of stores all had there own personalities. Each one , interesting on its own. Much different than today's mega stores. Nice to see that piece of history, thanks.
Descant
10-08-2019, 12:19 PM
Must be the Indian "Weirs" influence. Happy Landing sold "Indian"souvenirs, as did the Trading Post up the street in the Tarlson Arcade building. I remember Quoddy moccasins, and water skiing with Dick Binette. He barefooted; me, not so much.
mcdude
10-08-2019, 05:53 PM
For the record ........ there is no such place as happy landing and there never was. :)


Common mistake. For Correct-Ness :) HANDY LANDING


https://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopost/data/531/medium/20scanweirscottageswithbarrel.jpg
Dickie B from HB
10-08-2019, 09:13 PM
I remember back in the fifties when WLNH was an AM station, 1350 AM. Every morning we would hear the radio ads for Handy Landing. Always advertising Quoddy Moccasins.
Wifi-1
10-09-2019, 03:07 AM
I remember back in the fifties when WLNH was an AM station, 1350 AM. Every morning we would hear the radio ads for Handy Landing. Always advertising Quoddy Moccasins.

I remember waking up to them in the morning, after they came up to full power. Back when you could get a couple of stations of TV on rabbit ears :)
BroadHopper
10-09-2019, 07:40 AM
Vacant lot now part of the Margate, it was owned by the Kelly's
Their daughter Laura is a good friend of mine! The memory she shares!
sum-r breeze
10-10-2019, 01:49 PM
From the looks of the various pics...does it appear that they added a second floor to the existing building with the gas pumps in front?
trfour
10-12-2019, 01:29 PM
It was Happy when we were there, by car/ truck/ and or boat!! :)
We were there by boat this day